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Chi's Sweet Home

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Originally a (seinen!) manga series written by Konami Kanata, Chi's Sweet Home is the story of a lost kitten who tries to return home to her mother and littermates, only to be adopted by a couple (the Yamadas) and their young son Youhei. However, the apartment complex in which the family lives doesn't allow pets, so a lot of time is spent preventing the landlady and the other tenants from seeing Chi. Later, the Yamadas move into a new house, and Chi has to adjust once again to her new surroundings.

The anime is produced by Madhouse, and each episode is three minutes long. The episodes correspond to one chapter from the manga. Chi is voiced by Satomi Koorogi, better known as Menchi of Excel Saga and Umagon/Ponygon from Zatch Bell!.

The manga is currently licensed by Vertical, with its first volume released July 2010. Both seasons of the anime were licensed by Discotek Media in April 2014.

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The manga finally wrapped up in 2015 after it's 11 year run. However, the anime has now gotten a reboot serving as like a sequel to the Madhouse anime, airing in 2016. The reboot's episodes are about ten minutes long as opposed to three, the first season aired 51 episodes and it has now begun its second season.

This manga provides examples of:

Adaptation Dye-Job: Youhei and his parents' hair color would sometimes change in a different story or scene in the earlier volumes of the manga. In the anime, their hair color is completely different, most notable for Youhei, whose hair was orange in the original manga while his hair is brown in the anime.

Ann the kitten has grey fur exactly like Chi in the manga, in the CGI series, she has much lighter grey or lilac fur. She is also a blotched tabby, like her mother as opposed to her 'mackerel' tabby siblings. This is probably to make it easier to tell her and Chi apart.

Adult Fear: Episode 25 of the CGI reboot series is a possibly unintentional example for anyone who's ever owned both a pet cat and a pet bird. Chi repeatedly tries to eat the parakeet that the Yamadas are pet-sitting, ends up letting it out of its cage, and generally causes a huge mess. It's all Played for Laughs, but if you've ever been in that situation, you probably won't find it funny.

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Anthropomorphic Shift: A subtle example. Chi and the other cats act slightly more human-like in the 2016 series than in the 2004 and 2009 series, though they're still obviously pets.

Chekhov's Gunman: In New Address, Tama sometimes reflected on her little sister, who was separated from her. Chi runs into said sister, Hana, in episode 97 when she's trying to find a way back home. She's living with a couple and is a mother now.

Continuity Reboot: The 2016 CGI anime has Chi and family living in the new apartment, or one resembling it, but Blackie is still in the neighborhood and acts as a mentor to Chi, while the animals from Chi's New Address are nowhere to be seen. Instead, Chi makes friends with a male kitten named Come-Come, along with a few other, less-frequently-appearing cats like sister and brother pair Ann and Telly.

Defrosting Ice Queen: Cocchi/Come-Come is a tsundere kitten who pretends to be annoyed by Chi, but actually loves playing with her. He slowly warms up to Chi at first, but comes a long way and admits to being her friend after she gets food poisoning from eating some rotten sidewalk-chicken. He remains a tsundere, however.

Down the Rabbit Hole: Season 2 of the CGI adaptation, strangely enough, dips into this with "Fluffyland," a colorful, physics-defying, Seussian world populated by tasty flying fish as well as more dangerous creatures that the kittens find inside of a tree stump.

Gecko Ending: The first anime ended well before the manga did. As such, it doesn't feature the ending from the manga, which involves Chi returning to her original family, but ultimately choosing to live with the Yamadas in Paris. The 2016 anime ignores the manga ending altogether.

Good Parents: Chi's mom is another example. She even saves Chi from being hit by a car.

Gone Horribly Right: When Chi decides, after being moved multiple times, that she is not moving for the vacuum cleaner again, Mrs. Yamada uses the hose and brush extension on her and Chi loves it. The next time Mrs. Yamada tries to vacuum Chi actively gets in her way in hopes of getting brushed again.

The pet store clerk. A number of the neighborhood cats also remain nameless, despite apparently becoming good friends with Chi.

Subverted in Volume 12 of the manga. Chi's siblings names are Terry and Ann.

Youhei's parents are never named either in the original manga and anime. In the 2016 anime, though, their names are Miwa and Kento.

Potty Emergency: Chi doesn't get that her litter box is, well, her litter box. Also, a few instances with Youhei. It's interesting to note that the events surrounding this trope is the reason for Chi's name. It's based on the way the Japanese word for "pee" is pronounced.

Potty Failure: Youhei around the same time Chi's being litter-trained.

Properly Paranoid: Whenever the family needs to take Chi to the vet or someplace like that they will take her there in a basket with blanket in it. By the time they move to the new place in season 2 Chi is certain that the new home they have taken her to is a bad place, because they carried her there in the basket.

Zany Scheme: What Chi's owners have to go through to keep her in their apartment. However, before they finally decided to keep her, they put out advertisements in the newspaper for a kitten. They don't succeed, though.

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